Julie A. Nelson is Emeritus Professor of ¸£Àûµ¼º½s at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and a senior research fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Dr. Nelson’s research areas include feminist economics, ecological economics, the philosophy and methodology of economics, ethics and economics, and the teaching of economics. She is author of ¸£Àûµ¼º½s for Humans (2nd ed., 2018), Feminism, Objectivity, and ¸£Àûµ¼º½s (1996), and other books; coauthor of of the economics “in Context” introductory textbook series (with Goodwin et al.), and coeditor of Beyond ¸£Àûµ¼º½ Man (1993) and Feminist ¸£Àûµ¼º½s Today (2003). She is also the author of many articles in journals including Econometrica, American ¸£Àûµ¼º½ Review, Journal of ¸£Àûµ¼º½ Perspectives, Ecological ¸£Àûµ¼º½s, ¸£Àûµ¼º½s and Philosophy, History of Political Economy, and Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Dr. Nelson received her Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. She was a founding board member of the International Association for Feminist ¸£Àûµ¼º½s, is the ¸£Àûµ¼º½s section editor at the Journal of Business Ethics.
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